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Theory of molecular deformations and mesomorphic behaviour of dendrimers

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A. F. Terzis, A. G. Vanakaras and D.J. Photinos, Molec.Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 330, 1761-1768 (1999).

Abstract: We present a simple statistical theory of anisotropic fluid phases consisting of deformable molecules and we use it to describe the self-organization of liquid crystalline dendrimers in the limit of very densely attached mesogenic units. We perform calculations for model-systems of spherical molecules that can deform into rod-like or disc-like states and we determine their mesomorphic range as a function of molecular shape parameters and intrinsic conformational probability.

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